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severe drafts. For night protection a dog should have even more than this for 

 a dog, like the human being enjoys comfort at night. For this purpose the 

 simplest and best method is to have a sliding door on outside. This should be 

 made of matched flooring four inches wider and longer than the opening, and 

 have this door made so it will slide easily up and down by placing a screw eye 

 on top to which is fastened a good heavy cord, having this pass up and over 

 a pulley through a hole in building, so that door can be raised or lowered at 

 will from each side of building. After the stalls are made you will have a large 

 room, 40 feet long and 8 feet wide, where you can keep a sick dog or bitches in 

 season, or use it as a store room for crates, etc. One side of the kennel and 

 yard should be kept for matured dogs, the other for puppies and bitches in 

 season or for bitches with pups. In order to protect the pups and bitches in 

 season, get some wire fencing and divide off one side of kennel yard same as 

 their stalls, nail one end of fencing firmly to building or to a post set at 

 building and have this fencing go straight out to a post at fencing which com- 

 poses your main kennel fence. This will give you ten separate yards that are 

 four feet wide and about forty feet long, sufficient for the puppies until they 

 are old enough to go in the main yard with the matured dogs. Bitches kept in 

 an eclosure like this are absolutely safe from stray stud dogs, neither can they 

 get out, as has been the source of much annoyance to many owners of bitches 

 in season. Do not neglect to place eve troughs on building, have a large tank 

 to catch the water so that you may always have a good supply of soft water for 

 washing the dogs. The handiest tub to wash dogs in is made of clear pine 

 boards 14 in. wide, 6 feet long. Make box tight and paint it. With a box like 

 this you can work all around your dogs in washing. Place this tub near tank, 

 have tank elevated so that after washing you can give the dog a good rinsing 

 from tank which should have a faucet and short piece of hose at bottom. 

 Remember that the kennel yard should be plowed up or spaded over once a 

 month; this will keep the soil in a sweet and sanitary condition. Do not forget 

 that a dog likes to lay under the spreading branches of a shade tree, and that 

 it will add to their comfort to have a generous amount set in the yard as well 

 as a row around it. For this purpose there ib not a handsomer or more thrifty, 

 fast-growing, tree than the Carolina poplar, not the tall, lanky Lombard poplar, 

 which is an eye sore and nuisance. The Carolina poplars can be secured from 

 any nursery at from 15 to 25 cents each when ten feet high; these will make 

 large trees in three years. The kennel yard would not be complete without a 

 good pump and well so that the dogs can have fresh water several times each 

 day. An earthen dish of good size is best for this, and have it sunk in ground 

 to keep water oool. If convenience is wanted and small expense not objected 

 to it would be well to have a one-inch pipe run from pump to each of the yards 

 leading to each dish; at the pump you could have a connection that would fill 

 each dish independently or fill all at one time; this would avoid the bother of 

 carrying water in pail to each dish. 



